For those who left.

[Husky01]

All

   Been thinking about what 50 people have left Aces high in the past month or so, and there are always and will always be whinners. But do you think HTC cares if 30 people arnt happy while 6000 are? Heres goldelks simple math to help under stand that helped me under.


15 = cost per month
6,000 = apr # of players
12 = months in a year.

15 x 6,000 = 90,000  
90,000 x 12 = 1,080,000 <---is my guess of HTC gross income

  Now i know HTC is trying to make everyone happy and there doing a good job of it! Over 6000 peaple are happy!!!! Now i know some arent but if your running a buisness I belive u try to make the most people happy that you can and by making these changes i belive HTC has done that !
Now i relize that some arnt but there will always be those who arnt happy.

  Those r my thoughts
        All
 
   P.S. Keep up the changes HiTech and keep trying to improve gameplay for all of us!:aok

[TopDollar]

Expenses take a huge chunk out of that gross income. Think about how much of the pie Skuzzy is taking along with the rest of his employees. Also he has to pay for servers, Utilities for the office, government taxes, costs for ads, etc.

[Bear76]

YOU'RE ABOUT 2000 TOO HIGH ON NUMBERS

[Slash27]

Originally posted by goldelks
All

   Been thinking about what 50 people have left Aces high in the past month or so, and there are always and will always be whinners. But do you think HTC cares if 30 people arnt happy while 6000 are? Heres goldelks simple math to help under stand that helped me under.

What's this thread supposed to be doing?

[kamilyun]

While I don't think your post was ill intentioned goldelks...

I don't think talking about someone else's finances is good form.

Not flaming ya, and others might disagree.  Just my opinion...

[rpm]

Originally posted by Slash27
What's this thread supposed to be doing?

Good question.

[FBplmmr]

I think he is pointing out that HT is bringing home a decent amount of cake.. and the folks who left gotta be wondering what the heck to do with themselves after they get off the late shift at McDonalds.

you can only watch "the lord of the Rings" so many times!:rolleyes:

[FALCONWING]

if you think only 50 people have left the game..i would have to wonder where you get those numbers from??

and if you think 5500 are happy with it..then again i got to wonder how you came up with this?  obviously not from reading the bbs?

silly post...

we all hope the game does well...but lets not fluff the pillows or we may end up with nowhere to lay our heads

[Simaril]

Originally posted by FALCONWING
if you think only 50 people have left the game..i would have to wonder where you get those numbers from??

and if you think 5500 are happy with it..then again i got to wonder how you came up with this?  obviously not from reading the bbs?

silly post...

we all hope the game does well...but lets not fluff the pillows or we may end up with nowhere to lay our heads

Try again, Falc.


In september over 6000 people played enough time to be included in rank calculations. How do I know?

Just a little sneaky score manipulation....

Anytime you want to know that number, check the score of someone who plays enough to get a rank in one category, but zeros in another. For example, widewing (my usual test subject) spends huge chunks of time in the TA (!!!) and doesnt spend nearly as much time elsewhere. In september, he alwys flew attack, never fighter.

So, without any fighter sorties, he was ranked dead last. And dead last for  meant he was at the end of a line with 6147 players (september 2006) ahead of him.

In comparison, July 2006 was 5714.


Cant do the assessment for every month, because test subjects dont always have zeros in the most common column, fighter score. Numbers in other columns (bombers, GVs) are always lower...but you can extrapolate if you run some ratios.

Assuming that the ratio of GVplayers:FighterPlayers is statistically constant....

4185:6147 for 9/06; 3743:X for 9/05; X=5497 in sept 05


Numbers are DEFINITELY higher


So, despite the dissatisfaction of some, and even without HT's proprietary data, you have to admit that the overall numbers are AT WORST every bit as high, and maybe even higher than before the change.

[FBplmmr]

very clever Simaril

[Masherbrum]

Originally posted by Bear76
YOU'RE ABOUT 2000 TOO HIGH ON NUMBERS

Wrong, too low is more like it.

[john9001]

i hate numbers, there is always too many of them.

[Ghosth]

Actually there are aprox 6,000 player accounts registered in squadrons.

I suspect actual # of players is going to run between 8 & 10k.

[TopDollar]

But what you guys are forgetting is that some and I mean some of those players are only doing the two week trial period

[Husky01]

really u think there are about 8 to 10k paying acconts?